I wanna go to home depot and buy paint for my room, but alas! I am broke!

Lucky.. you have a room.. o.o mine is the livingroom :3

*Rolls out of bed straight to the floor* Ugh... I think I am coming down with something again, this time its throat, sinuses, type deal.

Paint your room Bullseye Red. I got two 1 gallons at Wal-Mart for pretty cheap. It really is a pretty color. Very bright and cheery if you have a wall sconce in your room or a desk lamp n__n

i don't have any of those sadly =/ and I'm broke xD

knuffels

Lol it was just a recommendation. You don't have to paint it that color xD

I want to paint it light green actually. Or maybe half green and half blue. * w*

HAhaha I used to live in the living room in our one apartment! it was suppose to be a 2 bedroom apartment but the second bedroom.. I couldn't even fit a bed in there =.= it was basically a storage room or walk in closet with a window .. so I over took the living room =w=

but now I have my own room with a DOOR! <3 but it doesnt lock Dx

My room is a forest green with high gloss. So my walls are dark and reflective.

I'm not allowed to paint my room =w=

I used to share a room with my mom, then I moved out to a dark corner in the garage and then I moved into my sister's room when she went to job corps then mom and I switched rooms because the room I was in has a bigger closet and now I have this room and hate the color. It's pukey yellow/tan and has some unpainted areas and parts of the paint are flaking off and I really want to spruce the room up A LOT. Plus we want to sell this house when we move so we need to make all the rooms look pretty. xD

-returns, with big headache-

What items do you need for your current quest? So I can make sure those get in there (cause.. adding all the items would take a while I'm giving you some of the ones I have the most of and just a buncha random ones.. but it'd be nice to give you something useful)

eww pukey yellow/tan? gross! xD

I'm stuck with white walls =w= but thats ok.. my Sesshoumaru wall scroll and Ryuk wall scroll keep me company =w= *tapes up gundam wing pics i printed out*

When you get around to painting your room, use a cd case or a piece of cardboard so you don't get any paint on the ceiling and the floor. Like, hold it while you are painting n__n And I got two gallons because I had to do two coats in my room, because the color was this yellowish tan and I didn't really like it.

When we move I'll have my own room, or at LEAST a loft.. but I wont be able to paint it.. :C

I'm living with my mom in an apartment, and painting rooms in a rental could be problematic xD

Same.. bah stupid rentals *grumble* >.> I don't think my landlord'd mind.. the place is a dump.. and he's a scumlord... but she wont let me anyway ;)

Does anyone else feel that renting is a waste of money? Because if you think about it, the average cost of an apartment is around $700 a month, depending on the area you live in. That would be about as much of a payment on a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house per month. So why pay for something that is only temporary, when you could be paying off something that is going toward actual ownership?

if you asked and get permission they should let you..

we're not allowed to paint our rooms cause of section 8 and HUD.. or what ever that new program is =.=

we pay 100$ and something thanks to the 2 programs above >.>,

I'd probably use a flattened cereal box. We tried using painters tape and paper when we did mom's room when we were switching but it sorta failed miserably. xD

Also this room already had paint on the ceiling from when whoever painted this room before we moved in did it. It's not much but it's noticeable. I also need to get the closet door outta the garage and put it up if I can. It was out where when we moved in and we don't know why so maybe the house settled and the door doesn't fit anymore or something. o Ao

I will never finish my quest. XD

I know it takes getting approval and everything before getting a house, but my mother has rented her entire life and she is 40 years old. No offense to her or anything. I want a house by the time I'm 25, even if it's just a little 2 bedroom 1 bathroom place. At least it would be mine and if I ever wanted, I could sell it and use that as a down payment to get something a little bigger or something that has a basement.

Generally rentals come with maintenance included in the price though, like if your plumbing goes crazy or a window is broken during a wind storm. Or electrical crap. x.x

Part of the reason is then you're in charge of the whole place you can't up and move for a job if you need, and there's mortgages and some people wont take certain credits (my mom has no credit at all o3o)

Painters tape sucks. It is still hard to not get the ceiling no matter what you do though, unless you overpay and have professionals do it, but where's the fun in that? xD It was a fun experience painting my old room with my aunt. I moved a year later though because it wasn't working out for me very well.

Well yes, you do become in charge of your own place, and it does take good credit to get a house. My mom has 5 pages of bad credit to fix, and my step dad has zero credit. I don't want her to buy a house while she is married to him though, because if they ever got a divorce, she would have to split the profits with him 50/50, and then she'd be screwed pretty much. Her husband is a slob and eats everything. We had a full pan of lasagna last night for dinner and he ate over half of it, took a crap, then ate some more of it. That's just how he is. Eats, cigarette, craps, computer, cigarette. Eats, cigarette, craps, computer, cigarette, etc. It is pathetic.

I love painting, anytime growing up my dad painted something I'd be out there with a paintbrush making a mess of things. xD

But we need to hire a pro to paint the exterior of the house. We tried doing that ourselves but the pressure washer didn't get the flaking paint off and my sisters didn't take a putty knife to it to get said flakes off so we still have flaking paint despite the new layer of paint on the house.

There are so many little repairs this house needs and we simply can't afford to fix everything. Makes me all sad because as a fixer this house is worth less than what we currently owe on it and we've been making mortgage payments for about 10 years. Yay for buying during the housing bubble thinger. D'8

Edit: and I should note we brought it as a fixer then shit went pear shaped and our funding for fixing it up went bye-bye.

Well, that totally sucks.. Alsooo DK, accept the trade on kuffels? ;)

Rent: If anything happens to the house, the landlord is responsible to having it paid to be fixed.

Buy: You literally have to pay for everything.

Personally, I'd only rent unless starting a family, less responsibility and I could decide to get a newer place easier.

Banners and such added to my shoppy XP yayay~ <3 haha

so whats going on? (:

Well, the little things tend to add up. It just sucks unless everyone in the house puts forth effort to get everything fixed, or most everything. I'm just disappointed because I didn't know how bad my mom's credit was before I found a house that was in decent shape, just needed a few repairs and paint, maybe carpet, and it would have been done. All for under $70,000. I don't even think people who collect just government money should be able to buy a house to be honest. Neither my mom nor my step dad work.

My mom and I are both on federal disability. :/

There are some people who actually need it like you.. but then again my neighbors.. most of them if any owned a house.. they don't deserve it they're all on welfare or similar, do drugs and are alcoholics.. e_e woo for the bad part of town!(not really we're the meh part of town.. not even the bad xD)

Also our 1 bedroom apartment. not bad sized.. is $550/mo, and water is included (but we have to pay for gas and electricity and everything else)

Wow that seems expensive for a 1 bedroom. Ours is a 2 bedroom with an office and 1 bathroom, but we have to pay for everything else. I dunno if they pay for water or not. But our rent is around the same as yours.

But yeah, both of them are able to work. They both have schizophrenia and they use that as an excuse to get out of a lot of things like working and driving. Or at least my step dad uses it as an excuse. My mother on the other hand has a bad back so working would be a little harder for her.

We'd have a bigger place but I can't find a job.. not even the worst nursing home in town has called me back, and the McDonald's isn't hiring me, either.. x_x (the application list was over 1/2 an inch thick..)

we have.. a cubbyhole for a bathroom, toilet, and sink and a tiny standing shower, it can't even fit 2 people in it without being pressed directly together (I've tried.. x_x curiosity killed the cat) The kitchen is also one of those teeny strip kitchens.. but hell, 2 bedrooms just around this size, or a little bigger are anywhere from $750-900/mo depending in this town.. and for other towns in this area, online.. for the crappy ones the low end = $800, and the higher end for a 2 bedroom..? around $1300 or so a month e_e

Our house is 3 beds, 1 bath, a living room and a kitchen. Literally only 6 rooms. And we pay about 350 a month on the mortgage... well I pay 150 of it my granddad covers the rest because mom is horrible at managing her finances and hasn't sent him a rent check in months. At least not that I am aware of. Mom has a few tickets with the county, and as such can't get a mortgage because it impacts her credit, so if we moved the loan would be in my name. Which means I'd have to start getting really ass-holey to my mom about her getting her finances in line so she can pay her share of the rent.

My mom has her first thing she NEEDS to pay or fark stuff up...
Car payments and insurance, we were skimming by before.. and now we have an extra $300 in stuff DD;
It's hard... also the food stamp process in my town is stupid I am 19, almost 20, a legal adult but because I live with her, they made me include her EVERY ASSET in my food stamp application...
Even she says it's BS and we sorta sulked out of there because she needed to get to work (I turned the application in.. but no appointment yet.. xD)

Finding a job is also very hard for me at the moment. I've applied almost everywhere in town and I can't work anywhere else, because I don't drive and neither does my mom or step dad. We have no car, so they use this public van service to get to doctor's appointments and stuff. Sometimes they try to bum rides off of people and that pisses me off. This apartment is about 950 sq. ft. so it is pretty good sized in my opinion. The kitchen is pretty much in the living room. They are conjoined, so it is an open area. Our bathroom has a small sink area, but has a bathtub with a shower in it, and the toilet is probably two or three feet away from the tub. The bedrooms are a good size and the office can be a small bedroom. Right now my mom is using it as an exercise room and she throws anything else in there that she doesn't have any room for anywhere else. It's a disaster area pretty much.

I don't drive/have a car myself, so I can't egt out of town unless I use the public transportation and it's so crappy I'm scared of it.. a bus every hour, tops.. DD;
I've applied pretty much everywhere in town but as a HS dropout in a dying town.. it's pretty damn hard :C